Research Catalog

Title

Community ecology / Peter J. Morin.

Author

Morin, Peter J. (Peter Jay), 1953-

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Science, ©1999.

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Description

viii, 424 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"Community ecology -- the study of the patterns and processes involving two or more species -- has developed rapidly in the last two decades, driven on by new and more sophisticated research techniques, advances in mathematical theory and modeling, and the increasing pressure on the environment wrought by humans. Once a purely descriptive science it is now one of the most forward-looking areas of scientific inquiry. Peter Morin skillfully guides us through the main tenets and central concepts of community ecology--competition, predation, food webs, indirect effects, habitat selection, diversity, and succession. Required reading for all students and practitioners interested in community phenomena, Community Ecology marks an important contribution to the development of this protean discipline." -- Publisher.

Subjects

• Écologie des communautés
• Biocénose
• Ecologia
• Biocenosis
• Biocoenosen
• Ökologie
• Biozönose
• Demökologie
• Biotic communities
• Ecology
• ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-407) and index.

Contents

1. Communities -- 2. Competition: mechanisms, models, and niches -- 3. Competition: experiments, observations, and null models -- 4. Predation and communities: empirical patterns -- 5. Models of predation in simple communities -- 6. Food webs -- 7. Mutualisms -- 8. Indirect effects -- 9. Temporal patterns: seasonal dynamics, priority effects, and assembly rules -- 10. Habitat selection -- 11. Spatial dynamics, recruitment-limited patterns, and island biogeography -- 12. Causes and consequences of diversity -- 13. Succession -- 14. Applied community ecology.

ISBN

• 0865423504
• 9780865423503

LCCN

98038821

OCLC

• ocm39672159
• 39672159
• SCSB-567582

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library